Advanced Array Systems, Applications and RF Technologies

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Systems and Applications

Boy you guys in sales are all the same. You remind me of the farmer in 1850. If you asked him what he wanted, he would say he wanted a horse that was half as big and ate half as many oats and was twice as strong. And there would be no discussion of a tractor.

D. T. Kearns and D. A. Nadler, Prophets in the Dark

In this book we have adopted a holistic view of array systems that perform the radar, electronic warfare (EW), radiometric, and communications functions. As all array systems share the same theory, this fundamental premise seems eminently reasonable. At a real-world level, it is well known that robust radar systems cannot be realized without knowledge of EW systems that can disable them. Additionally, the ...